In this presentation, I show how we have been using a particularly sensitive and simple quantitative phase microscopy technique(QPM) technique called cross-grating phase microscopy (CGM) for applications in nanophotonics, opening a new route of investigation for QPM, besides biology. This contribution is aimed to explain (i) how CGM can be used as a temperature microscopy technique to map the temperature of gold nanoparticles under illumination, enabling applications in physics, chemistry and biology at the nano/microscale; (ii) how CGM can map the complex optical conductivity and complex refractive index of 2D materials; (iii) how CGM can retrieve the complex optical polarizability of nanoparticles, along with the extinction, scattering and absorption cross sections from a single interferogram image, and finally (iv) how CGM can fully characterize metasurfaces.
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